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The Legal Accountability Project with Aliza Shatzman

Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of The Legal Accountability Project, speaks with Karyn Polak, Founder and President of Shift the Prism and LAP Board Member, about judicial accountability and how to protect law clerks from workplace mistreatment. They discuss the scope of the problem, including gender discrimination and harassment, and Aliza offers suggestions for what members of the legal profession can do to help.

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Aliza Shatzman - On the Record

LAP’s President and Founder, Aliza Shatzman, speaks with Allison Stewart to share her experience with a judicial clerkship and how it motivated her to start the Legal Accountability Project.

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Who Can Hold Judges Accountable? with Aliza Shatzman

LAP’s President and Founder, Aliza Shatzman, discusses judicial accountability and LAP's unprecedented step to ensure transparency, equity, and accountability in judicial clerkships as LAP gears up to launch its clerkships database.

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Protecting Law Clerks from Harassment

Whether you go to a T5 law school, a regional law school, or Notre Dame Law School, law students universally lack access to transparent, candid information about judicial clerkships.

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman spoke with Max Gaston, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Notre Dame Law School, about judicial accountability, clerkships, and LAP’s legal technology solution to the lack of transparency, diversity and equity, and accountability in the clerkship system.

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The Clerkship Whisper Network

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visits Right To Be Heard, the Columbia Law Review podcast, to speak with CLR editor Jafar Khalfani-Bey ‘24 about Aliza’s CLR article, The Clerkships Whisper Network: What It Is, Why It’s Broken, and How To Fix It.

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Harassment in the Judiciary with Aliza Shatzman

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visits Feminist Law Podcast to speak with Clara Topiol about her experiences as a judicial law clerk, judicial misconduct, and what can be done about it. They also discuss Aliza’s article with the UCLA Journal of Gender & Law, “Untouchable Judges? What I’ve Learned About Harassment in the Judiciary, and What We Can Do To Stop It.”

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Aliza Shatzman on the Clerkships Whisper Network

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman returns to Ipse Dixit to speak with LAP board member Peter Romer-Friedman about her article with the Columbia Law Review, The Clerkships Whisper Network: What It Is, Why It’s Broken, and How To Fix It.

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Aliza Shatzman - The Legal Accountability Project

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited Legal Tenzer podcast to speak with Prof Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer. Aliza shares her clerkship experience, her work with LAP, and her insights about ensuring a positive clerkship experience.   

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The Legal Accountability Project with Aliza Shatzman

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited The Newfangled Lawyer Podcast to speak with Patrick Patino about how she’s disrupting the status quo and upending the clerkship system in order to correct injustices in the judiciary and legal profession.

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Clerkships and Holding Judges Accountable

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited The Justice Podcast to speak with Bobby Stroup about her work to improve the clerkship system and hold judges accountable for misconduct.

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Demystifying Judicial Clerkships with Aliza Shatzman

It’s been a while since LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman thought about the LSAT.

On LSAT Demon’s Thinking LSAT podcast, Aliza demystified judicial clerkships for a prelaw audience and explained how LAP is working to improve the clerkship system for the next generation of legal professionals.

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Bringing Transparency to Judicial Clerkships

The legal profession places an enormous premium on getting judicial clerkships, which usually offer both valuable learning experiences and a major boost to a young lawyer’s future prospects. But, are there potential downsides to clerkships? Some law clerks have a wonderful experience, but too many have had an experience marked by harassment and mistreatment at the hands of an abusive judge. Molly Ranns and JoAnn Hathaway welcome Aliza Shatzman to talk about her personal story and her efforts to bring transparency and awareness about the full range of clerkship experiences to lift current stigmas and prevent future judiciary workplace mistreatment. 

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Leading by Advocating for Change with Aliza Shatzman

LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited Lawyers Who Lead to speak with Sigalle Barness. Aliza shares how her clerkship experience quickly became one of mistreatment and harassment. Realizing there were no resources to support or protect her, Aliza persevered by filing a judicial complaint, advocating for legislation to extend to law clerks and federal public defenders, and ultimately creating a platform to provide more transparency and accountability for in the clerkship system. Aliza's story shows how speaking up about our personal experiences, even when faced with those who hold more power than us, can create real and systemic change. 


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